Simple Way to Make Homemade Vickys Gingerbread Men -Christmas & Halloween GF DF EF SF NF

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The ingredients needed to make Vickys Gingerbread Men -Christmas & Halloween GF DF EF SF NF:

1. Prepare 100 grams sunflower spread / gold foil Stork margarine / butter
2. Get 100 grams soft brown sugar
3. Prepare 70 grams golden syrup, my homemade recipe is posted separately
4. Make ready 240 grams plain / gluten-free flour
5. Take 1/4 xanthan gum if using GF flour
6. Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
7. Take 1 tsp ground ginger
8. Take 1/2 tsp cinnamon
9. Get 1/4 tsp nutmeg
10. Get icing to decorate, choc chips, raisins etc for decorations

Instructions to make Vickys Gingerbread Men -Christmas & Halloween GF DF EF SF NF:

1. Cream the butter and sugar together until light
2. Add the syrup and mix in - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/334096-vickys-homemade-golden-syrup-like-tate-lyles-gf-df-ef-sf-nf
3. Mix the flour, baking powder and spices together and add to the mixture. Form a dough adding a touch more syrup if required to bring it together
4. Wrap in clingfilm and refrigerate for half an hour
5. Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper/baking parchment
6. Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 5/ 190C. Flour your surface then roll out your dough so it's 1cm thick and cut out your men with a gingerbread men shaped cutter or whatever shape you want to use
7. You can get neat stamps you press on instead of decorating with icing like those pictured here
8. I have also used an upsides down snowman cutter for a skull
9. Place on baking tray and bake for 10 - 12 minutes - they should be firm but not browned
10. Rest on tray a further 10 minutes then remove and set on a wire rack to continue cooling
11. Decorate with piped icing. Let your imagination guide you. You could stick sweets to the icing for eyes or buttons
12. For Halloween make some headless, armless or legless by cutting off a leg or whatever and decorate with red icing near the 'injury', scary faces and pipe a skeleton out of icing onto the bodies. My son loves this! We call them 'Injure-bread Men' lol
13. To make Xmas Stained Glass Cookies, follow the recipe but cut circles out of your main cookie shapes
14. Bash some boiled sweets or lollipops with a rolling pin to break them into smaller pieces and spoon into the holes in your cookies
15. Poke a hole near the top of each cookie so when its baked you can thread a ribbon through and hang on your xmas tree or in front of your window

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